Original title
御家人斬九郎
Released
1/9/1995
Origin country
JP
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Fuji Television Network, Kyodo Eiga Company Ltd.
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
50
Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
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